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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject: How not to be a Comcast spammer

So I had my outgoing SMTP mail blocked by Comcast for sending out too much mail. I had done a mail merge and sent a mailing to a whopping 100 people from my Gmail account.

After fixing the issue, the comcast rep said she doesn't recommend sending more than 25 emails at a time.

Just sharing the info in case anyone else is on comcast.
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject:

thanks for that, jeff.
i am, but i don't like 'em much. monopolists!
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CarynClark · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

Agreed, Diane,

We have 'em for our personal email account... and I learned that rule the hard way as well. It sucks. Thanks for sharing though.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

The nnoying part is that I wasn't even using my comcast email. I was just using the broadband service to email through gmail.
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CarynClark · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

True dat... is annoying, fer sure.
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mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

I don't have Comcast, myself, but have had trouble when I sent too many emails with the same subject line to a Comcast account - e.g., if my sister and I exchanged several emails and did't change the subject line, I got my email address temporarily blocked. This hasn't happened in a while, so maybe they've fixed that particular atrocity, but it was shocking when it happened.

JTVG · Backstage Pass Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 433

Our server's max is 30.... Reminds me of the airline business. All these precautions to stop bad people and the customers end up having to pay for it.
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Bruce · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

I guess this reinforces using a newsletter service for those bulk emails. They seem to work around all that.

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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

i like emailbrain
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Doc · Guest

I'm on Comcast and I use Group Mail, a free newsletter software package. I've been using it for over a year now with nary a problem. It also allows you to pause after sending the number of e-mails you specify. Couldn't be happier.

Here's a link: http://www.group-mail.com/asp/common/downloads.asp

The only limitation I've found with the free version is you may only send 100 e-mails at a time. If you have a very large list, the paid version allows you to send unlimited numbers of e-mails at once.

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